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Bitch Fights, Trannys and Big Surprises on Top Model

Tourists Live It Up While Poor San Franciscans Take Stay-Cations

The Clickable Clit: “I Feel Guilty I'm Making Cheaters and Two-Timers Pay $2.75 to Contact Me”

TiVo Alert for Broadway Babies - ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

This New Year's Eve, Out with the Old

By Matthew Stafford New Year's Eve - known to legendary boozer Humphrey Bogart as "amateur night" - is a holiday fraught with potholes and land mines. On this wind-chilled evening of manufactured revelry, people from every walk of life take it upon themselves to have a great time or die trying. Thi ... More >>

The Meaning of Life

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

I Love Rock ’n’ Roll

Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.

Infiltrating AshleyMadison.com

“I feel guilty I'm making cheaters and two-timers pay $2.75 to contact me”

Legend Has It

That old 'last man on Earth' setup? It really works.

What a Toad

Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Keeping the Meter Running

Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted

Unbunch Panties, Please

Hostel sequel is lame, tame, and totally not worth moralizing about

Strange Fruit

The weird, wonderful, disturbing world of Joyce Scott

Hometown Legend

Coming of age and stayin' alive on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens

What We Talk About When We Talk About Spin

Coming of age and stayin' alive on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens

Monkey Shines

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

Private Dicks

Downey and Kilmer make perfect detectives in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Deep Impact

A documentary revisits the moment when porn went mainstream

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Jan. 19, 2005

Market Economics

If Mayor Newsom lives up to his promises, there's no reason Market Street can't become a thriving theater district -- and very quickly

No Bedtime Story

Playwright Mary Zimmerman's next splash

Last Crawl

In which three Doggie Diner Dog Heads lead Silke Tudor cross-country, to a place that is not San Francisco but, even so, feels like home

Feeling Blue

In Porn Theatre, people go looking for lust in all the wrong places

Elaine Stritch at Liberty

The once hard-drinking actress not only gossips and confesses but also sings, magnificently

Drink It Up

Audiences adore it, but is Urinetown as fresh as the hype suggests?

Muggles Mania

Baywatch

Best Hipster Nostalgia

"After School Special"

Long Night's Journey Into Day

Jonestown on his mind: A documentary maker struggles with the ineffable

Dance to the Music

Two local choreographers bring the songs onto the stage

Tomorrow Never Dies

Dot

A Legacy in Limbo

Two decades after Harvey Milk's assassination, a historic collection of his memorabilia still waits for a proper home

The Romantic Egotist

After decades of being misunderstood, novelist and gay icon John Rechy is fighting back -- and making Hollywood take notice

The Man Who Came to Dinner

A Kid in the Hall

Sleazy Does It

A Kid in the Hall

Capitalizing on Y2K

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

Dog Bites

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

Night+Day

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

Slap Shots

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

Repertory Film Listing

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

Owner of the Warfield pushes billboard ballot measure

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

Times Square Billboard's Jilted Lover -- An SFSU Journalism Alum

Be true to your school...​Well, it turns out that you can become rich and famous after graduating journalism school after all -- just not in the way you may have expected. YaVaughnie Wilkins -- whose fifteen minutes of infamy have started ticking -- made national news when she took out large billb ... More >>

Art Review: Various: "Furthermore"

Be true to your school...​Well, it turns out that you can become rich and famous after graduating journalism school after all -- just not in the way you may have expected. YaVaughnie Wilkins -- whose fifteen minutes of infamy have started ticking -- made national news when she took out large billb ... More >>

Art Review: Various: "Furthermore"

Be true to your school...​Well, it turns out that you can become rich and famous after graduating journalism school after all -- just not in the way you may have expected. YaVaughnie Wilkins -- whose fifteen minutes of infamy have started ticking -- made national news when she took out large billb ... More >>

San Francisco's Only Gun Shop Could Lose Permit Today

High Bridge ArmsIs this an endangered sight in the Mission? ​High Bridge Arms, the only gun shop in all San Francisco, may find itself outgunned at a police hearing today to reinstate its permit to deal firearms -- proving there are small, family-owned businesses San Franciscans would rather not h ... More >>

A Kinder, Gentler - and Still Unconstitutional - DADT

​The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>

Which Is Witch

​The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

​The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>

Roach Gigz Romps Through NYC in New Kreayshawn-Directed Video for "F A Chorus"

"I'm in New York on my tourist shit," says Roach Gigz.​ "Hopefully when you see me, you won't get mad, taunts S.F. rapper Roach Gigz in "F A Chorus," the brash statement of intent from his brand-new Bitch I'm a Player EP. And he's right -- you'd better not get mad, unless he's hogging your spo ... More >>

Magicians Walking Across United States Finally Make it to New York City

Courtesy of the Great American Walkabout An easy stroll through Pennsylvania ​SF Weekly readers might recall the offbeat story about a few magicians who were on a random quest to walk the nation. When we caught up with them as they started their journey in San Francisco in March, they told us that ... More >>

S.F. Trumpeter Bill Ortiz on Playing with Souls of Mischief, Covering Gil Scott-Heron, and Touring with Sheila E.

Bill Ortiz​"Souls of Mischief brought me in initially to replace a sample that was going to cost them too much to clear!" So says San Francisco-born trumpeter Bill Ortiz with a laugh as he recalls his contribution to the Bay Area rap quartet's cherished debut album '93 'Til Infinity. Ortiz's p ... More >>